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Charlie Rouse opens with two choruses on tenor sax, the first of two solos, followed by Billy Gardner on piano. Taken at a medium swing tempo of 113 BPM over the 32-bar AABA in F, the improvisation proceeds with patient, unhurried deliberation. Billy Gardner follows with one and a half piano choruses that bring a different energy to the proceedings, his playing more overtly swinging and blues-inflected than Rouse's measured approach. Recorded for the album Yeah! in 1960, the performance captures Charlie Rouse at 35 to 36 years old. Charlie Rouse closes his 1960 album Yeah! with a swinging, medium-tempo reading of Isham Jones's perennial standard "There Is No Greater Love." Rouse delivers two tenor saxophone choruses through the 32-bar AABA form in F, his solo balancing melodic warmth with the rhythmic angularity that was his trademark.
Charlie Rouse was 35 to 36 years old at the time.
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